Don’t forget that we will be having our first meeting of the semester this Friday at 5:30 in Keck Hall, Room 101 (the building with Valhalla). Dinner will be provided for everyone at the beginning.
Our guests for the workshop this Friday afternoon are Natalie Houston and Neal Audenaert. They have received a start-up grant from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities to build a program they are calling The Visual Page.
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Please check out the schedule and mark your calendars for February 15, March 7, and April 11. There will also be an optional workshop from April 5-7.
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You can revisit the talks by Scott Nesbit and Chad Black by watching videos on YouTube!
Here is Nesbit on Visualizing Emancipation:
And here is Black on his “Quito Jailed” project:
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In my posts on learning Python (Part I and Part II), I’ve been trying to create a script that takes one of my old blog posts and turns it into a correctly formatted markdown file using a program called Pandoc. In plainer English, I’m trying to take some stuff that looks like this and make it look like this.
The ultimate goal is to take a list of URLs from my blog and make an EPUB out of all the content. Getting each page into a Markdown file is an intermediate step. My last post figured out how to do this with at least one page, but I’ve now figured out how to take a list of URLs, convert each of them to markdown, and append the resulting text all together in one file.
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Reading Digital Sources: A Case Study in Ship’s Logs → An entry point into a fascinating series on digital history by Ben Schmidt, with some good discussion of topic modeling and text analysis
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I hope you enjoyed playing around with Paper Machines in our workshop with Jo Guldi. As promised, here’s a brief summary of how I constructed the corpus we used for our visualizations. I’ll follow that with some of the visualizations you made, and invite you to comment on what you see that’s of interest.
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To learn more about the beginnings of Paper Machines and the uses of text mining and visualization for historians, you can check out Jo Guldi’s recent talk at MITH in Maryland:
Topic Modeling Workshop: Guldi and Johnson-Roberson from MITH in MD on Vimeo.
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This week’s speaker, Jo Guldi, will be talking to us partly about a new Zotero extension called Paper Machines that she helped to build. But what, you may ask, is Zotero?
Zotero is a bibliographic management program developed at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. It makes it easy to manage citations and keep notes together for a research project. As we’ll see later this week, however, it’s also much more. Because the code for Zotero is open source, end users and interested programmers can help extend its functionality, and Paper Machines is a case in point.
Aside from all that, it also just makes formatting bibliographies and citations dang easy (hint, hint to you honors thesis writers in the class!). If you haven’t been exposed to Zotero before, here a few posts that can help get you started:
The Digital Media Center at Rice also usually offers a workshop on Zotero at the beginning of each semester, and you can find a useful tutorial handout on their website.
See you Thursday!
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Our next speaker Jo Guldi will be here next Thursday for a talk at 5 p.m. and a workshop to follow at 7:30 p.m., per our usual schedule. Jo is the author of Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State, and she will be talking about a new digital history project called Paper Machines. You can read more about how it works on Profhacker.
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